Wetteland, a born-again Christian, was living in Bartonville at the time and serving on the board of directors for the Calvary Chapel church in Katy. “He volunteered to do it,” church leader Mark Martinez told The Post. Over the years, Wetteland has worked at Liberty Christian School in Texas as the school’s baseball coach and also taught Bible studies. He divorced from his wife, Michele, in 2015 and the pair had four children together.
The California native struggled with drugs and alcohol throughout his youth but was still able to land in the minors in 1986. According to Yankees analyst and journalist Jack Curry, he almost died twice — when he was just 17. “Once he nearly overdosed on a combination of drugs, including LSD, at a Grateful Dead concert,” wrote Curry in a 1995 profile on Wetteland for the New York Times. “Another time, Wetteland was in the front seat when a drunken friend rammed his car into a telephone pole. Something happened. He trudged on. He kept playing baseball and guitar. He kept walking crooked.” According to his then wife, Michele, “it was difficult for him to forgive his parents for some things he had to go through as a kid. He was really wild and really out there at one time and it was so opposed to my beliefs as a Christian,” she said, noting how “it really is two different persons with John. God’s word says the old man is cast off. John’s old man has been cast off. If you asked me if I sit here in awe of John and how obedient he has been to God’s word, I’d tell you that I do.”
Michele could not be reached for comment Tuesday and declined to speak to the Dallas Morning News.
The California native struggled with drugs and alcohol throughout his youth but was still able to land in the minors in 1986. According to Yankees analyst and journalist Jack Curry, he almost died twice — when he was just 17. “Once he nearly overdosed on a combination of drugs, including LSD, at a Grateful Dead concert,” wrote Curry in a 1995 profile on Wetteland for the New York Times. “Another time, Wetteland was in the front seat when a drunken friend rammed his car into a telephone pole. Something happened. He trudged on. He kept playing baseball and guitar. He kept walking crooked.” According to his then wife, Michele, “it was difficult for him to forgive his parents for some things he had to go through as a kid. He was really wild and really out there at one time and it was so opposed to my beliefs as a Christian,” she said, noting how “it really is two different persons with John. God’s word says the old man is cast off. John’s old man has been cast off. If you asked me if I sit here in awe of John and how obedient he has been to God’s word, I’d tell you that I do.”
Michele could not be reached for comment Tuesday and declined to speak to the Dallas Morning News.
There is no indication, YET, that Wetteland raped any little boys he encountered as a church representative.
BUT in the shameful case of Wetteland we do have a high profile boy raper who trumpeted his Christian belief (whatever that is. . .but for the purpose of this article's contention, let us assume he is washed in Christ's blood), AND his degenerate acts occurred in our current era of a Christian church stained with a seeming unending revelation of pedophilia.
The church appears over-represented (to put it charitably) with child rapers (and whether or not this is due chiefly to the sins of the catholics matters little to those outside the Kingdom of God, for they make little distinction between the sects of the visible church. . .to the unbelievers, Christians seem to have a problem keeping a respectable distance between themselves and the genitals and mouths of children).
What must our child-raping church do to regain any credibility?
It must CONFESS!
Not its preferred confession du jour of making begrudging cash payouts to its victims when caught (the church essentially selling indulgences to itself), but a real confession.
The church must confess to the world it is not a safe place for children.
Simply put, no one age 17 and under allowed admittance to any church service or church-sponsored event.
The church must tell the world the truth, it cannot guarantee the safety of children.
Crazy?
Not as crazy as the alternative: continuing to allow children to be raped, and further discrediting the faith in the eyes of unbelievers.
The church can't ban pedophiles like Wetteland. Church is for sinners. Its Founder declared:
They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Boy rapers like John Wetteland need a place to go. . .
Currently the church is a place for child rapers to hide. . .they hide their filthy desires while gaining intimate access to the juvenile flesh they long to defile. . .they mix their disgusting lusts with the trappings of the church, and thus disorient their young prey and make them vulnerable to their reprobate tendencies.
John Wetteland needs a church. . .but not a church in which he can hide like a pervert in sheep's clothing, but a church where he can stand *fully exposed* as the boy molestor he is. He needs a church where he can announce he has a sickness unto death which only the supernatural aid of the Lord Jesus Christ can heal.
The last thing John Wetteland needs is a pew seat next to a cute five year old boy. . .
The church cannot remain the church by closing its doors to John Wetteland, but it can remain the church by closing its functions to children. Let children learn about the faith of Christ at home from their parents. If their parents can't go to church because they have no one at home to mind their children, then let them have church at home, the way it used to be done, anyway!
In point of fact, these so-called churches, where deviants like John Wetteland hide, are practically useless. They are just coffee shops and drive-thru communion stations with feel-good playlists.
It's time for the church to put away childish things, and become a grown-up church. . .
What a radical statement if our contemporary churches closed their doors to children, put away their childish services, and became sanctuaries for honest sinners!
Imagine! A church fulfilling its calling!
And I have no doubt this message is beyond the understanding of 99.9% of current church-goers. . .
BUT in the shameful case of Wetteland we do have a high profile boy raper who trumpeted his Christian belief (whatever that is. . .but for the purpose of this article's contention, let us assume he is washed in Christ's blood), AND his degenerate acts occurred in our current era of a Christian church stained with a seeming unending revelation of pedophilia.
The church appears over-represented (to put it charitably) with child rapers (and whether or not this is due chiefly to the sins of the catholics matters little to those outside the Kingdom of God, for they make little distinction between the sects of the visible church. . .to the unbelievers, Christians seem to have a problem keeping a respectable distance between themselves and the genitals and mouths of children).
What must our child-raping church do to regain any credibility?
It must CONFESS!
Not its preferred confession du jour of making begrudging cash payouts to its victims when caught (the church essentially selling indulgences to itself), but a real confession.
The church must confess to the world it is not a safe place for children.
Simply put, no one age 17 and under allowed admittance to any church service or church-sponsored event.
The church must tell the world the truth, it cannot guarantee the safety of children.
Crazy?
Not as crazy as the alternative: continuing to allow children to be raped, and further discrediting the faith in the eyes of unbelievers.
The church can't ban pedophiles like Wetteland. Church is for sinners. Its Founder declared:
They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Boy rapers like John Wetteland need a place to go. . .
Currently the church is a place for child rapers to hide. . .they hide their filthy desires while gaining intimate access to the juvenile flesh they long to defile. . .they mix their disgusting lusts with the trappings of the church, and thus disorient their young prey and make them vulnerable to their reprobate tendencies.
John Wetteland needs a church. . .but not a church in which he can hide like a pervert in sheep's clothing, but a church where he can stand *fully exposed* as the boy molestor he is. He needs a church where he can announce he has a sickness unto death which only the supernatural aid of the Lord Jesus Christ can heal.
The last thing John Wetteland needs is a pew seat next to a cute five year old boy. . .
The church cannot remain the church by closing its doors to John Wetteland, but it can remain the church by closing its functions to children. Let children learn about the faith of Christ at home from their parents. If their parents can't go to church because they have no one at home to mind their children, then let them have church at home, the way it used to be done, anyway!
In point of fact, these so-called churches, where deviants like John Wetteland hide, are practically useless. They are just coffee shops and drive-thru communion stations with feel-good playlists.
It's time for the church to put away childish things, and become a grown-up church. . .
What a radical statement if our contemporary churches closed their doors to children, put away their childish services, and became sanctuaries for honest sinners!
Imagine! A church fulfilling its calling!
And I have no doubt this message is beyond the understanding of 99.9% of current church-goers. . .
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